Pax Britannica
Subtitle: ruling the waves and keeping the peace before armageddon
By: Barry Gough Independent Scholar, Canada
Series: Britain and the world -- volume 14
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780230354302
Subjects: History; Modern Civilization; British influences; Peace; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining pax Britannica; title: Empire of the seas; title: Anchors of empire; title: Surveying the seas, expanding the empire of science; title: Informal and formal empires in the Americas; title: Challenges of Europe, the mediterranean, and the Black Sea; title: Indian Ocean, Singapore and the China seas; title: Imperial web in the South Pacific; title: Send a gunboat!; title: Anti-slaver: West Africa and the Americas; title: Treaty making and Dhow Chasing in the Indian Ocean; title: Darkening horizons; title: The lion and the eagle; title: Trident bearers: the navy as Britannia's instrument; title: Recessional: end of pax Britannica and the American inheritance.